Short Black 10 Killing The Black Dog
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Short Black 10 Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les Murray
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 10 Killing The Black Dog written by Les Murray and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Self-Help categories.
On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later … at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. What I didn't know was that I was heading home in order to go mad. Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's frank and courageous account of his struggle with depression. Since this essay first appeared, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history. Murray describes how patches of daylight now balance out those of darkness in his life.
Killing The Black Dog
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Author : Les Murray
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Killing The Black Dog written by Les Murray and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Poetry categories.
In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, "you feel beneath help." Killing the Black Dog is Murray's recollection of those awful days: brief, pointed, wise, and full of beauty in the way of his poetry. The prose text—delicately balanced between personal and informative—gives a glimpse of the imprint that depression can leave on a life. The accompanying poems show their roots in his crisis—a crisis from which, he reports toward the close of this poignant book, he has fully recovered. "My thinking is no longer jammed and sooty with resentment," he recalls. "I no longer wear only stretch-knit clothes and drawstring pants. I no longer come down with bouts of weeping or reasonless exhaustion. And I no longer seek rejection in a belief that only bitterly conceded praise is reliable." Killing the Black Dog is a crucial chapter in the life of an outstanding poet.
Short Black 8 Prosper
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 8 Prosper written by Simon Leys and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with History categories.
A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead. ‘Ow! They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them!’ grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course. Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that ship, which crushes three dozen such waves under her uncaring steel plates. How many hundreds of men does she carry? Up there, people laugh, play, dream, eat and sleep … while we, a few feet above the water, surrounded by dancing lights, keep watch till dawn. One summer, Simon Leys joined the crew of a tuna-fishing boat in Brittany, one of the last boats working under sail. In this exceptionally beautiful and elegiac essay, he evokes the traditions, hardships and dangers of the oldest and finest form of seamanship.
Short Black 9 Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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Author : Robert Manne
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 9 Cypherpunk Revolutionary written by Robert Manne and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one. This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange – both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of WikiLeaks. Pulling together the threads of his development, Manne shows how Assange became one of the most influential Australians of our time.
Short Black 6 Booze Territory
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Author : Anna Krien
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 6 Booze Territory written by Anna Krien and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Social Science categories.
On a Tuesday morning, I make my way to the Gap View Hotel for a drinking session starting at 10 a.m. I'm told this is one of Alice Springs' three notorious 'animal bars' … As I wander around, a Sudanese security guard approaches me, his face concerned. Am I lost? he wants to know. In a way, I am. I don't want a beer. It's 10 a.m., for Chrissake. In Booze Territory, Anna Krien takes a clear-eyed look at Indigenous binge-drinking – who does it, why, and what it means. She visits bars brimming with morning drinkers and investigates alcoholic after-effects ranging from extreme violence to extraordinarily high rates of cirrhosis of the liver. This is an essay which never fails to see the human dimension of an intractable problem and shine a light on its deep causes.
Short Black 3 Fat City
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Author : Karen Hitchcock
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 3 Fat City written by Karen Hitchcock and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Medical categories.
I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. “Nothing,” he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: “I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I’m addicted to eating. I’m addicted.” He punches his thigh. In Fat City, Karen Hitchcock unpicks the idea of obesity as a disease. In a riveting blend of story and analysis, she explores chemistry, psychology and the impulse to excess to explain the West’s growing obesity epidemic.
Short Black 11 No Fixed Address
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Author : Robyn Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 11 No Fixed Address written by Robyn Davidson and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora; the Hajj. What could this ritual journeying be but symbolic, idealised versions of the foraging life? By taking to the road we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures. In this fascinating and moving essay she evokes a vanishing way of life, and notes a paradox: that even as classical nomads are disappearing, hypermobility has become the hallmark of contemporary life. In a time of environmental peril, she argues, the nomadic way with nature still offers valuable lessons. No Fixed Address is part lament, part evocation and part exhilarating speculative journey.
Short Black 7 The One Day
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Author : David Malouf
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 7 The One Day written by David Malouf and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with History categories.
Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they had seen and walked away from … One result of this was that the men who had actually lived through Gallipoli and the trenches did not write about it. In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this 'one day' when Australians stop to reflect on endurance, service and the folly of war. He shows how what was once history has now passed into legend, and how we have found in Anzac Day ‘a truly national occasion.’
Short Black 5 The Brave Ones
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Author : John Birmingham
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 5 The Brave Ones written by John Birmingham and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with History categories.
As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage pants, long hair and bandanas, with axes in their eyes and guns at the ready. The Brave Ones follows the Indonesian Army's Battalion 745 as it withdrew from East Timor after the 1999 independence vote, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Birmingham's unflinching account reveals the scorched-earth tactics of the retreating troops, and shows just how close Australia came to armed conflict with Indonesia.
Short Black 1 The Australian Disease
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Author : Richard Flanagan
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Short Black 1 The Australian Disease written by Richard Flanagan and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Political Science categories.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness – Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts. The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.